Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American writer, will preside at Cleveland Public Library’s (CPL) Writers and Readers Series, Sunday, October 19, 2:00 p.m. FREE and open to the public, the event will take place at the Main Library, Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, E. 6th Street and Superior Avenue. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Díaz’s critically-acclaimed first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, the Sargent First Novel Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for 2007 Best Novel. It was one of three novels nominated by CPL for the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Miramax acquired the rights for a film adaptation of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Díaz’s first book, Drown, is a collection of short stories that became a national bestseller.
Díaz moved to New Jersey with his parents at age six. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. His father abandoned the family in the mid-80s, and the family was plunged into a period of severe poverty. Consequently, Díaz became fascinated with apocalyptic films and books. He completed his BA at Rutgers College in 1992, majoring in English. He earned his MFA from Cornell University.
His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker which listed him as one of the 20 top writers for the 21st century. He has been published in Story, The Paris Review, and in the anthologies, The Best American Short Stories and African Voices. He received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and more. Díaz, active in the Dominican community, teaches creative writing at MIT. He lives in New York City. Call (216) 623-2869 for more information.
| Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer - CPL posted on Wednesday September 24, 2008 |
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